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Warner Music to sell Blunt album on MySpace

NEW YORK
Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:47am EDT
James Blunt performs at at the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium, London July 7, 2007. Warner Music Group Corp will sell a new album by Blunt through News Corp's Internet social network MySpace, the Financial Times reported in its online edition. REUTERS/Stephen Hird

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Music Group Corp will sell a new album by the artist James Blunt through News Corp's Internet social network MySpace, the Financial Times reported in its online edition.

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U.S. consumers will be able to listen for free beginning on Tuesday to Blunt's entire album from his MySpace webpage, the report said. They can purchase a download for $9.99 that will play on Apple Inc's iPod, and will also receive a compact disc version in the mail, the report said.

The report said the experiment reflects the music industry's effort to find new ways to sell music at a time when it is being hit by piracy and continuing declines in CD sales.

Warner Music was not immediately available for comment.

(Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf)
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